A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley raving, calling it "amazing and impressive,"despite working with less-advanced chips.

Dougong (斗拱) is a bracketing system used in ancient Chinese architecture. Huifu and its partners offer a "customized, open and reliable" system that connects payment, software, and data management capabilities, like ancient Chinese wooden components.

Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American counterparts’ technological lead to a matter of weeks. It is not just with reasoning models that Chinese firms are in the vanguard: in December DeepSeek published a new large language model ( LLM ),

A slew of releases in the last week demonstrate how Chinese companies have moved quickly with AI models that compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

While the total industrial investment in Shanghai was estimated to achieve double-digit growth throughout 2024, the output value of high-tech ships and integrated circuits was estimated to grow by about 17 percent and 20 percent, respectively, on a yearly basis, according to Zhang.

As 2025 unfolds, China's smartphone market faces a wave of price cuts, with Apple launching promotions and Huawei following suit by adjusting its pricing. While manufacturers compete for market share through innovation in a contracting market,

Beijing and Shanghai have recently attained unprecedented levels of investment and development in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. These two cities are propelling China's swift ascent in the global AI competition.

(Yicai) Jan. 23 -- Shanghai's annual gross domestic product surpassed CNY5 trillion (USD686.2 billion) last year, making it the first of China’s cities to achieve this milestone.

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / January 23, 2025 / On November 9, Lenovo, in collaboration with the Shanghai Natural History Museum, launched the "Awakening Earth's Majestic Creatures with AI ...

China's most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) company, whose stock surged more than 470 per cent in the past 12 months, predicted its first-ever quarterly profit, adding fuel to hopes among some investors that the firm could replace US chip designer Nvidia in the local market amid Beijing's self-sufficiency drive.

But the U.S. companies have one major disadvantage: secrecy. For years, Silicon Valley has operated on a closed-door model, keeping AI breakthroughs locked behind proprietary systems. DeepSeek’s decision to make R1 open source has flipped that narrative.

In 2023, smartphones-to-silicon conglomerate Huawei quietly released its flagship Mate 60 Pro handset. The launch, while muted, was worth celebrating in the People’s Republic: the device featured a made-in-China chip that had previously seemed out of reach amid crippling U.